the light of the sun began to brighten the quiet karakura pushing away the darkness that held on to it, now after the events the day before Inoue hadn't left the Kurosaki house hold fearing for the unconscious Ichigo who had yet to awaken from a deep slumber, Ishin walked passed the door looking at a now asleep Inoue who resided on the floor next to Ichigo's bed thinking of how much she cared for his dense son.
"hey, dad" Yuzu whispered quietly as she tapped his shoulder, Ishin turned to his innocent wide eyed daughter.
"morning Yuzu what is it?" Ishin whispered to not wake anyone still asleep.
"there's a strange man at the door he asked to talk to you, but he wouldn't let me know what about" she said still whispering, Ishin hugged his daughter just before he headed down stairs to inspect who the 'strange man' was, Ishin put on a stern face as he approached an open door with Fane standing in the middle looking at the cross hanging around his neck.
"you said you need to talk?" Ishin questioned, snapping Fane to his attention.
"oh hey, I'm Michael but call me Fane, I know you so no need to tell me Mr Kurosaki " Fane throwing the normal greeting out of the window, Ishin looked at him with a scowl.
"why are you here and who sent you?"Ishin said calmly.
"I'm here to talk to you I need someone to give the soul society a message, without endangering them and without me running into the captain commander, at the moment they'll kill me on sight... so i need you too" Fane explained patiently,
"i cant leave right now not for anything my eldest son isn't well and I don't know what caused it, so you'll have to find someone else to do it." as Ishin went to close the door Fane pushed it open releasing high amounts of reaitsu.
"Ishin just think about" Fane then took control of his reaitsu as he left the Kurosaki house hold at a brisk pace.
"I see Ichigo gets his strength from his old man, calm no matter the situation he'll do his best in the end" Fane thought as he turned in to a nearby alley.
"Mr Kurosaki who was that?" a now awake Inoue questioned, Ishin turned with a smile on his face.
"nothing just some stranger, how are you Inoue" he questioned still baring his ridiculous smile.
"I'm ok I didn't want to leave Kurosaki-San alone but I felt something from down here that's what woke me up" Inoue explained rubbing her left eye.
Ishin closed the door cautiously making sure there wasn't anyone there this time to his luck there wasn't.
"I'll let them know when Ichigo's awake" Ishin thought to himself.
meanwhile in the kitchen...
"hey Karin have you noticed how close Ichigo and Orihime have gotten lately?" Yuzu Questioned.
"don't worry about it Yuzu it's probably nothing i wouldn't over think it" Karin answered Yuzu confidently.
"still... something up with them i can tell" Yuzu commented as she picked up a bowl of rice and chop sticks.
"I'm gonna go give Orihime some food then I'll come back and help with the dishes" Yuzu began walking out of the kitchen in to the living room seeing Inoue standing by the door with a note in her hand's, Yuzu placed the rice on the table for Inoue quietly not to frighten the off guard Inoue before doing anything.
"Orihime i brought some food for you." Yuzu spoke softly, the now alert Inoue placed the note in her pocket before turning to Yuzu with a smile on her face.
"thank you Yuzu I will eat it straight away" A now happy faced Inoue merrily said, Yuzu looked at Inoue with a slightly confused look.
"Are you ok Orihime you seem a little unsettled" Yuzu expected a foul answer, as she saw Inoue smile quiver, Inoue not noticing this herself as she proceed to lie.
"I'm fine, oh i just remembered i need to go home I forgot to do something yesterday" Orihime said as she headed to the door.
"b-but what about your food?" Yuzu questioned as Inoue opened the front door leading out to the street.
"don't worry i'll be back soon" Inoue said as she rushed out the door heading in the direction of her apartment, as she continued to walk to her place she felt the atmosphere sink, like it had yesterday when they ran across Fane fighting an Arrancar, the stench of death itself filled the outside of her apartment as she arrived at the door Inoue's expression turned sour as she felt the gaze of evil upon her.
"there's one of the target's he wants us to capture, her name is Orihime Inoue so far all we know is that she's in contact with the reaper or has been at least but be careful, she's meant to be very powerful according to the others he had interrogated" the arrancer commander explained to his squad of several of his kind before barking the final orders.
"now lets go have some fun" the now sinister faced commander ordered.